Trial · automatic planning in development

Plan rotomolding production with mold fit built in.

RotoScheduler is the factory production scheduling system built on RotoSpider. It brings production orders, mold availability, machine and cycle capacity, process rules, changeovers, business priorities, and factory data exchange into the scheduling decision.

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The planning board, in your browser

The demo at rotoscheduler.app opens a sample factory with a two-week plan already made: six machines, their arms, and eight oven runs a day. Read the plan at Month, Week or Day, zoom to a few hours to see each arm's service, oven and cooler time, select a mold run and see where it may go, move it, undo it, save the plan as a file, or export a sheet. Everything stays in your browser. The demo does not plan automatically; that part of RotoScheduler is still in development. Short videos show the demo and the trial.

RotoScheduler web demo: six hours of 7 September on the sample factory; machine RM-4 is unfolded and its arm A is drawn to its spider's size with a named band per mounted mold over the service, oven and cooler time, while arms B and C are folded thumbnails and the other machines show their cycles as lines — Six hours of one day. Machine RM-4 is unfolded and its arm A is drawn to its spider's size: each mounted mold is a named band as tall as the room it takes, over the arm's service, oven and cooler time. Arms B and C are folded thumbnails of the same picture, and the other machines show their cycles as lines until you unfold them.

Month, Week, Day, or six hours

Day, Week and Month are shortcuts on one continuous board. Zoom in until each arm's cycle shows its service, oven and cooler time; drag empty space to pan. Unfold an arm and each mold is a named band, as tall as the room it takes on the spider.

Change the plan by hand

Select a mold run and the board lights the arm-days that have room for it. Drop it there, or take it off the plan. Every move can be undone.

Your plan, your files

Save the plan as a file and open it again later, keep named versions, and export a machine-day or a week as a sheet. Factory inputs are read-only in the demo.

Carry the rules and data behind the schedule

RotoSpider answers: Can this mold combination fit on this arm and spider? RotoScheduler uses that answer: When and where should the feasible work run?

Carry operating constraints

Use real mold availability, maintenance, materials, labor, process compatibility, machine hours, and cycle times when deciding what can run.

Apply business priorities

Balance due dates, throughput, changeover effort, priority products, and customer commitments while keeping the planner in control.

Exchange factory data

Read orders and master data from factory systems, then return a schedule and the RotoSpider layout evidence behind each proposed mold group.

A plant implementation uses your real rules

RotoScheduler is not an off-the-shelf production system. A plant implementation is built around your machines, mold shapes, process and compatibility rules, data exchange, costs, and business priorities.

It can run as a standalone planning tool or connect to an Advanced Planning and Scheduling, Manufacturing Execution, or Manufacturing Operations Management environment.